Innovation
Winners of Australia’s top engineering awards revealed
A world expert in pile foundation design, whose work has underpinned many of the world’s tallest buildings, has received Australia’s...
How an innovative solar-powered system is providing clean water to Indigenous communities
Remote communities across Australia now have a new option for affordable and continuous potable water, thanks to Project Gilghi, a...
This Australian technology helps to avoid dangerous tailings dams collapses
In response to major catastrophic tailings dam collapses in recent years, an Australian team has developed a new slope stability...
Meet an engineer making the world a better place — through sludge
Sludge is a messy subject, but Nicky Eshtiaghi believes her work on sewage systems can make the world a better...
Australian student-built rocket readies for lift off
University of Queensland engineering students have designed and built a rocket that will blast off next year — and hopefully...
Why this Tesla engineer redesigned the chocolate chip
It turns out the ordinary, everyday chocolate chips with which we’re familiar are not perfect enough — according to industrial...
Meet the 2020 Australian Engineering Excellence Award winners
Australia’s top engineering projects and the teams behind them were celebrated this week at the 2020 Australian Engineering Excellence Awards.
Building an emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients? This engineer needed just 17 days
“It looked like the hospital system would be overwhelmed,” says Professor Gregg Suaning. “So we got to work and 17...
Infrastructure firm unmasks same-day COVID-19 testing solution
A Melbourne-based CEO has come up with an innovative testing regime to help keep workers safe and a major construction...
Meet George Ferris, the civil engineer behind one of the world’s most popular fairground rides
In 1890, as plans for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago were taking shape, organisers put a call out to...
